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FACULTY MEMBERS often point to the passage of the Core Curriculum as evidence of their commitment to undergraduate education. Supporting a stronger tutorial program would be a more convincing display of that commitment...
Tarver said he is particularly interested in having the K-School develop a more comprehensive approach to its specialized programs within the MPA curriculum. The specialized nature of such programs as business and governmental relations, or state and local policy management, is unique among MPA programs, Tarver said...
...well as ethics, Bok calls for more courses on employee relations and government regulation--two other emerging fields. But some B-School faculty think Bok overlooked the considerable attention the school already pays to these areas. Just recently the faculty passed a revised curriculum including treatment, at least in bits and pieces, of the areas Bok outlines. Curricular reform is always a thorny process and not likely to occur again soon...
Business school faculty and administrators may end up simply filing Bok's report under miscellaneous correspondence and forgetting about it. They feel their recent curriculum reform constituted enough change for a while, and students seem to agree. B-school people don't even like to talk much about Bok's report. Instead, they present an unfrazzled and unrevealing front to the world, while inside students continue to prepare as before for the day when they will "take charge and run something...
With the institution of the much-vaunted Core Curriculum and some Faculty struggles to reform tutorials, the University may be headed for even more change. Still, critics both inside and out of Harvard called the changes cosmetic, and urged more progressive measures...